Example sentences of "[art] number [prep] [noun] that [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Branson had drawn up what was to become known as the ‘ Million List ’ — the number of things that had to be taken care of in the next three months before the airline could fly . |
| 2 | Although the number of genes that encode intracellular protein tyrosine-kinases in the human genome may be quite large , relatively few have been isolated , and the protein products of even fewer have been analysed . |
| 3 | Concentration of updates in a particular area — case 3 above — reduces the number of blocks that have to be read and in the most extreme case , where all or none of the records in a block require updating , the percentage of records that need to be read would not change due to blocking . |
| 4 | If the Government wanted to reduce the number of obstacles that prevent prosecution of offenders , thereby making convictions more certain , they would alter the mens rea principle under section 12(1) of the 1988 Act and import the term ’ knowing or believing ’ from section 22 of that Act . |
| 5 | Such was the number of committees that writing itself had to be suspended . |
| 6 | But I mean it 's it er it was great I mean the fact that I was I mean in in Aberdeen I was away from home , I mean you did n't even notice it , because of the number of Orcadians that popped in by the hospital and as I said sent cards and letters , it was great . |
| 7 | These subjective factors open up the number of variations that need to be considered and hence leads to an underconstrained design situation that can stimulate major changes in product concepts . |
| 8 | This gives a rough idea of the number of choices that have to be carried forward in order to produce word graphs of this size . |
| 9 | She 'd started with a small ad in a contact magazine , and a box number to keep the entire business at arm 's length ; she could n't believe the number of replies that came in . |
| 10 | Given the number of mergers that have happened over recent years , it 's becoming a rare event when a firm can celebrate its centenary with the same name it started out with . |
| 11 | As a result , there has been a steady growth in the number of companies that have an audit committee — around two-thirds of the top 150 UK listed industrial companies and the great majority of UK listed financial institutions now have audit committees , and in more than half these cases , the committees were established within the past five years . |
| 12 | ‘ The number of companies that do n't have the right picture is amazing , ’ Mr Desoutter says . |
| 13 | I mean , I think , there is something there that needs pursuing , I 'm not accusing all judges of being , inherently , you know , nutty , or , whatever , but , the number of cases that have come to light in the last few years , whether it 's because the press have just decided to home in on them , |
| 14 | So , this method of measuring the conservatism of DNA , by looking at the number of changes that have actually occurred during geological time , compounds genuine copying fidelity with the filtering effects of natural selection . |
| 15 | All that 's changed is the way the formula 's been applied , and the number of calls that counts towards the formula . |
| 16 | Yes , yes , I mean this year , with the formula obviously , because the number of fire calls has dropped , it impacts upon er , as I say that , I do n't know whether the actual , the cost , the differential between the number of calls that have dropped and the drop in the S S A , whether it 's comparable , and I do n't suppose they 've got a measure of the drop , in S S A terms it 's far greater than the actual marginal costs of er , not attending those er , extra , extra fire calls . |
| 17 | Thus , for example , a high level of absenteeism may be a sign of low morale ; high staff turnover and the inability to retain staff may be a sign of low morale ( witness the number of teachers that leave the profession every year ) ; industrial action or strikes may be an indication that morale and motivation are low . |
| 18 | The number of TC-LC that adhered to KC was 10-fold greater than the number of TE-LC that bound , implying a role for cadherins in LC-KC interactions . |
| 19 | Geomicrobiology , the study of geological and biological interactions , attracts increasing interest ; in BGS , the number of projects that have a biological component is growing steadily . |
| 20 | In a quantitative sense , in terms of the number of laws that have been passed in the past 12 years , that is correct , but if the totality of the laws represent a house , it will ensure that the laws that it changes will result in the foundations being decimated , with the result that it will fall down . |
| 21 | What matters more than time is the number of transactions that take place . |
| 22 | Irving Fisher 's version of the quantity theory can be explained in terms of the following ‘ equation of exchange ’ : where M is the nominal stock of money in circulation and V is the transactions velocity of circulation of money ( that is , the average number of times the given quantity of money changes hands in transactions ) ; P is the average price of all transactions and T is the number of transactions that take place during the time period . |
| 23 | Just to give you an idea of the order of magnitude we are talking about , the number of generations that separate us from our earliest ancestors is certainly measured in the thousands of millions . |
| 24 | The number of particles in the baby universe will be equal to the number of particles that have fallen into the black hole , plus the number of particles that the black hole emits during its evaporation . |
| 25 | The number of countries that have H-bombs is limited because the technology for making tritium is so hard to come by . |
| 26 | The number of countries that have produced full comprehensive environmental strategies like our own can be numbered on the fingers of one hand . |
| 27 | It would , therefore , make sense if axons played a part in controlling the number of oligodendrocytes that develop in a myelinated tract . |
| 28 | These findings suggest that axonal electrical activity normally controls the production and/or release of the growth factors that are responsible for proliferation of oligodendrocyte precursor cells and thereby helps to control the number of oligodendrocytes that develop in the region . |
| 29 | Whatever the mechanism , our findings suggest that axonal electrical activity normally stimulates the proliferation of oligodendrocyte precursor cells , thereby increasing the number of oligodendrocytes that develop locally . |
| 30 | According to a study by the agricultural/ — economics unit at Exeter University , the number of farms that have diversified has nearly doubled since the mid-1980s . |